Cookie-Based authentication for Next.js 13 appsThis post is for you if you want a simpler alternative to NextAuth to implement authentication in your Next.js application using Iron-Session and the App Router. What's iron-session ? It's a popular open-source project for Node.js for encrypting/decrypting data that can be persisted in cookies. You can find more about the project in Github. My implementation uses a middleware that relies on iron-s
